Power BI alerts with PPU License?

[Lightsong90]

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out If I am able to set up alerts while only having a premium per user license. When I look this up online I am getting mixed answers. Do you have to have Fabric for alerts? Can I set up alerts if all I have is a Premium Per User License?

[Greg_Deckler]

@Lightsong90 That is correct: Set data alerts in the Power BI service - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

This is where the confusion lies most likely:

"Set alerts to notify you when data in your dashboards changes beyond the limits you set.

You can set alerts on tiles in your My Workspace. You can also set alerts if someone shares a dashboard that's in a Premium capacity. If you have a Power BI Pro license, you can set alerts on tiles in any other workspace, too. Alerts can only be set on tiles pinned from report visuals, and only on gauges, KPIs, and cards. Alerts can be set on visuals created from streaming datasets that you pin from a report to a dashboard. Alerts can't be set on streaming tiles created directly on the dashboard by using Add tile > Custom streaming data."

The first 2 sentences are talking about users with a Free license. The next sentence talks about Pro licensing although it should say "any other non-PPU workspace" to be 100% accurate. PPU is Pro+ so you can set alerts in any workspace, Premium, PPU, or otherwise.

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@Lightsong90 You can definitely setup alerts on Dashboard tiles with a PPU license because you can do that with a Pro license.

[Lightsong90]

@Greg_Deckler Thank you! Just to clarify, you can set up alerts on Dashboard tiles with a Pro license, even if it's not part of a Premium capacity environment?